A Month in Romania Q&A !
Where are you living and how are the conditions?
Currently our whole squad is staying together in the city of Craiova partnering with Hope Ministries. Were all in one house together, each team has a room and all 30 of us get two bathrooms to share.
The house we are in is super charming, in the middle of the city and only about a fifteen-minute walk to our ministry office, where we spend the majority of our mornings.
Everyday one of our four teams is on meal duty for the day and serves the squad by preparing us all breakfast, lunch and dinner. We have a cleaning schedule and each team gets a laundry day once a week. We’ve been blessed with a washing machine and plenty of balcony space and chandeliers to hang dry our cloths on.
What do you do all day?
We’ve settled into a nice routine for this month in Craiova, a typical Wednesday-Saturday looks like …
7 am wake up and fight for space to spit your toothpaste in the bathroom sink,
8 am breakfast,
Then a sleepy morning walk to the ministry office (that might include a coffee stop),
9:30 am be at the office to start our morning devotionals, 10-12 we will have intersession and a teaching from one of our leaders or hosts,
Then 12-3 break for lunch and team time,
From 3-7 we split up into our groups for individual ministries,
Family dinner around 7:30, 8:00ish,
Lights out at 11pm and my personal favorite Sleep Time,
Then we start all over again!!!
Sundays look a little different each time but generally start with 9am breakfast, 10am -12pm church, 4-7pm squad ministry.
Monday is our Sabbath and Tuesday is Adventure day(:
What does ministry look like?
For this month in Craiova we split into multiple small groups for daily ministry. We split up so each head of the church has a few of us to help them with their particular part of ministry within the organization.
Emily and I have been helping out Elly and Emmanuel (aka the cutest couple ever). Our ministry this month has been different everyday from visiting the Roma villages, to kids ministry, street evangelism, cleaning and organizing our ministry house, cooking/serving the homeless, bible studies and discipleship training. Its been fun trying a whole assortment of distinctive ministries and seeing how pastoring is not the only way of serving and building the kingdom.
